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Okay, Rev, I can deal with making geeks dream to be as bad as we are.
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: *shoves glasses up his face* Yes! Our magic is indeed mighty! *rolls a d6*
Hey I said pedantic, not sad. There's a very subtle delineation, like a noticeable lack of dice...a tendency to point out subtle delineations and to point out that you have pointed them out. *anti-feedback programming kicks in* Yeah.
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*mock-menacingly* Are you suggesting something which involves dice is sad? I'll have you know I'm an avid collector of dice...*rattles a box of crystal-shaped dice under your nose*
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Real geek gamers don't use dice. They write random number generation programs. With punch cards.
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I don't have a problem with a vessel like this. The description might be militaristic, but it would make sense . . . especially on border regions . . . for there to be small mobile sensor platforms of this nature. Stationary platforms can only do so much.
My main issue would be that a sensor platform this small might not be able to detect and process a lot of the more esoteric technobabble.
In other words, some sneaky guy technobabbling his technobabble in order to defeat normal scans might defeat the sensors of this little thing, whereas Galaxy Class modifier-modifier-technobabbles might detect residual traces of stray technobabble indicative of the sneaky sonsabitch's technobabble.
But then, if we're pondering this as being a support vessel for something like those F-14-looking things I've seen on here, which would have even less scanning and processing power, I'd say this thing kicks ass. If you wanted badass sensors capable of finding some ship with lots of technobabble-action, you'd probably bring a starship anyway.
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Being about the size of a runabout, I would speculate that it could be carried abord more combat oriented vessels, like the Akira, to increase sensor capabilities, if not range, then the deatailed-ness of the scans. I suppose it could turn any ship with runabout carrying capabilities into a somewhat dedicated science ship, maybe to take scans of a newly discovered planet or anomaly until a true science ship could get there. "Instant Science Ship"... HeHeHe
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Taking everything in to account, Rev being right, Fabrux correcting me (yet again), and Guardian's insightful technobabbling (which made since), I may have to do something, but I am not sure what. I may have to program a random number generator to solve my dilemma.
Anyone got a spare punch card? Heavy emphasis on card.
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Hm, when is someone going to use the SS Raven design for something cool and tactical? So many potential hardpoints and surfaces for refitting or augmenting...
No offense but the runabout-class feels more and more like the 1984 Datsun among Starfleet vessels to me. It's almost Reagan-era.
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I'm no fan of the pacifistic Starfleet idea, so I absolutely love this design. Injecting more realism into the woefully underdeveloped Star Trek universe.
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